When T. Lindsey was director of something at the museum in Canyon I was editor of the town's paper, and we became associates. He was remarkably persuasive as well as knowledgeable. He got the museum to let him literally, meaning really, build a sod house as it would have been constructed and furnished in 1907. He wanted to actually bust out the sod on completely virgin land on the WTSU Nance Ranch. He did. Boy Scouts helped him. He built the one-room house of sod. Then, T. Lindsey being who he was, he wanted to live in it. He talked me into spending the weekend one February with him. I've never been treated so warmly and been so freaking cold in all my life before or since.
Any ideas on how to get the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum reopened and its collections once again available to the public, or good news for us Amarillo expatriates that it is being so?
When T. Lindsey was director of something at the museum in Canyon I was editor of the town's paper, and we became associates. He was remarkably persuasive as well as knowledgeable. He got the museum to let him literally, meaning really, build a sod house as it would have been constructed and furnished in 1907. He wanted to actually bust out the sod on completely virgin land on the WTSU Nance Ranch. He did. Boy Scouts helped him. He built the one-room house of sod. Then, T. Lindsey being who he was, he wanted to live in it. He talked me into spending the weekend one February with him. I've never been treated so warmly and been so freaking cold in all my life before or since.
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Any ideas on how to get the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum reopened and its collections once again available to the public, or good news for us Amarillo expatriates that it is being so?
Thank you, Mike. I still use his “Ghost Towns of Texas” whenever I go ramblin’.